Fr. Stan fills us in this week about his recent trip to Portugal

July 28, 2005

Dear Friends of Francesco, Greetings peace and Blessings to you from London Heathrow Airport… en route to NY from Portugal... we had an awesome retreat with the “Jovenes de San Francisco” (Young People Group of St. Frances). The numbers were small and beautiful like everyone and everything on the retreat from location to the food, and the Blessings were – thanks be to God – huge!! The retreat began at the Cova in Fatima where we had Mass and where I prayed for all of you and all your intentions and your families and friends. The theme of the retreat was “R U Ready?” Got a new song that we used as the theme song that came to me after the first day called “Ready Me”. The chorus goes like this (you should have heard these young Portuguese singin!!! You should have seen them tap dancing at the concert on Tuesday!!!!)

READY ME FOR ALL OF YOU

START RIGHT NOW DO WHAT YOU GOT TO DO

POWER ME WITH LOVE BREAKIN THROUGH

TAKIN ALL OF ME AND GIVIN ME ALL OF YOU

I’m just crossing the most intense travel threshold of the most intense time of the year. Lots of back-to-back stuff across the Atlantic and across the east coast and west coast divides of the country – Thursday in from Portugal and out Friday to San Diego returning on Sunday and departing Monday for England ect… Please pray…